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TALES OF A 4TH GENERATION TEXTILE EXECUTIVE: MAKING SURE STUDIOE CUSTOMERS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPY
Hello Studioe Blogees, I finally have a second or two to breathe following the very successful Portland Quilt Market for Studioe. Of course when I have time to breathe, I have time to talk and when I have time to talk, I want to talk to you, all of the loyal Studioe followers. If you haven’t heard yet, Studioe introduced a group of shot cottons at market that are called Peppered Cottons because they were the brainchild of our esteemed licensor, Pepper Cory. Get it? On top of that, some of the colors were named after spices and the swatch card says “Solid Colors with Spice.” Very clever play on words! How lucky…
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TALES OF A 4TH GENERATION TEXTILE EXECUTIVE: NEXT STOP…PADUCAH
As I settled into my seat on the 8 am flight from New York’s Laguardia to Nashville, TN, I hear the flight attendant say that we will be taking off an hour later than scheduled. “Furlough!?!” “Sequester!?!?” I muttered to myself as I worried about my schedule being all messed up since I would only have half a day to enjoy Paducah. We eventually took off and I spent my time reading up on the American Quilt Society’s (AQS) show in Paducah as well as all the exciting activities and sites available for “fabric” people to see and enjoy. All and all, it seems like a sort of Shangri-La for…
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SOMETIMES EVERYBODY WINS…
Hi, it’s Scott from Team Studioe. I just got off the phone with one of the contest winners from our first Studioe Promotion, Kay Atkins who owns Thread’s N Treasures in Belleville, MI. It was so great to talk to her and hear the enthusiasm in her voice over our products, and how her shop and the customers she serves has changed since she won over $2300 in retail value of fabric. I am 9 months in since taking over Studioe Fabrics, and bringing it to the New York office. I have worked very diligently on EVERY aspect of the business to really make some big changes and improvements in operations,…
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CONVERSATION WITH TEXTILE DESIGNER OF URBANISTA…BELINDA GEE
Studioe Fabrics is very lucky to have a group of designers who are so very talented, and provide so much passion to what they create. One of our designers, Belinda Gee, agreed to have a blog chat with us this week. Listen here to a great conversation with Belinda, the designer of two of Studioe Fabrics great collections: Urbanista and Metropia. She explains her personal process to getting from ideas to final design. Wonderful inspiration to those of us who enjoy the creative process. -Vanessa http://www.blogtalkradio.com/studioefabrics/2013/03/12/interview-with-belinda-gee Note: we had technical difficulties which ended our talk abruptly at the 20 min mark, however, it was a great chat!
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A REPORT FROM QUILTCON
QuiltCon was recently held in Austin, TX and Laura Gilvin, the Marketing and Product Development Manager of Studioe Fabrics was able to attend. Did anyone else get to go? She came back with a new, clear and inspired understanding of the modern quilt movement and were amazed at the quilts they saw at the show. Modern Quilt Guild has teamed with Craftsy.com to post lectures from the event for free, so you can see for yourself. http://www.craftsy.com/class/quiltcon-lecture-series-2013/194?expiredPreview=true Today’s blog is an interview with Laura Gilvin, on her impressions of QuiltCon. First, an introduction to Laura. She has been designing quilts, quilt patterns, and working with our design team on the staff…
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MEET MEGAN DOWNER, DESIGN DIRECTOR
Meet Megan Downer, the Design Director at Studioe Fabrics. Listen in and hear what her job is like, and how she got started in textile design. Listen to our latest Blog Talk Radio session with Megan as my guest: http://ow.ly/i6azR -Vanessa Tags: Textile Design
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SPRING QUILT MARKET – ONLY 86 DAYS UNTIL PORTLAND
We just had a planning meeting this morning about the Studioe Fabrics booth at Spring Quilt Market. While it seems like such a long way off, it is only 86 days away. Take away 24 weekend days, 62 lunch breaks, a couple vacation days, and it’s practically here! We get so excited because we launch brand new collections at market, and shop owners get to see and touch the collections we introduced in January. On the website we will have a pre-show preview party, so if you can not make it to Portland, you can still get a peek at the latest Studioe collections. Be sure to LIKE us on…
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BLOG TALK RADIO – CONVERSATIONS WITH STUDIOE FABRICS AND PEPPER CORY
We had a live interview this morning with Pepper Cory, who is such a good sport, on Blog Talk Radio. So, she tells me, after the interview, that she was in broadcasting in school, and is a pro at this sort of thing. The list of what she does and knows goes on and on. We are lucky to have her on our team! Listen in at: http://tobtr.com/s/4378107 – Vanessa
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Q & A WITH PEPPER CORY ON THE NEW TOWN AND COUNTRY COLLECTION
Today I had the honor of being able to interview a quilt star in the industry, Pepper Cory. Pepper has become such a friend of the Studioe team that we feel like she is part of the family. Having been a quilt maker since 1972, Pepper has long standing fame in the quilting industry. She has been intrinsically involved in the quilting industry in many facets including: designing quilts, writing about quilts, teaching, demonstrating, championing others in the industry and at one time she even owned a quilt shop called Culpepper’s Quilts in East Lansing, MI. Now she has added a new path to her long list of quilt industry trailblazing…
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TALES OF A FOURTH GENERATION TEXTILE EXECUTIVE
Where Did This Fabric Come From? PART 3: SNS SOUTH – DOUBLE AND ROLLING, BAGGING, STOCKING THE SHELVES, PICKING & PACKING AND FINALLY SHIPPING TO YOUR STORE. Once received, the fabric is temporarily housed in the SNS warehouse, until they receive cutting instructions from us. Now the forklift drivers move the pallets of ROT (rolled on tube) fabric over to each of the different double and rollers a.k.a. cutters. Below is a perfect picture of this. As you can see on the lower left are the rolls of fabric waiting to be cut. On the right side, you can see the young woman working the double and rolling machine. If you…